Napatech announced general availability of its first 400Gbps programmable SmartNIC based on the Intel Agilex 7 FPGAs.
The new NT400 SmartNIC platform includes two QSFP56 network ports, supporting up to 2x200G traffic. At the core of the NT400 platform is the Intel Agilex 7 FPGA F-Tile chiplet, which incorporates a configurable, hardened Ethernet protocol stack.
The SmartNIC hardware is complemented by Napatech's portfolio of production-grade software packages. The platform's PCIe Gen 4 16-lane host interface enables full-duplex 2x100Gbps traffic between network ports and host applications.
Napatech said it chose the Intel Agilex 7 FPGA for its scalability options, which allow support for five different configurations that meet various price, performance, power and feature goals.
“The NT400 platform represents the latest generation within our portfolio of SmartNIC solutions,” said Jarrod Siket, Chief Marketing Officer at Napatech. “We will deliver multiple SKUs based on this platform, providing products with memory configurations as well features like time synchronization and management ports that are precisely tuned to the requirements of our customers’ applications, all packaged with the applicable production-grade software.”
“We are delighted to see Napatech choose the Intel Agilex 7 FPGA for their leading-edge SmartNIC solutions,” said Mike Fitton, Vice President Programmable Solutions Group and General Manager, Network Business Division at Intel. “The combination of our FPGAs, which deliver high performance, and power efficiency plus a rich feature set for the most demanding applications, together with Napatech’s production-grade hardware and software, helps ensure that customers can deliver leading solutions for a wide range of enterprise and telecom applications.”
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